Instructions for Replication Packet
Paper: The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-Being Data
By: Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, George Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert Van Landeghem, Georgios Kavetsos, and Michael I. Norton 

The replication packed consists of: 

-	GWP_Dataset_Builder.do:  This Stata programme (“.do”) file takes the raw Gallup World Poll data (please see note on access), cleans the relevant variables and merges in macroeconomic data such that it is ready to be analysed. 

-	GWP_Analysis.do:  This file uses the Stata dataset gwp_restat.dta (created by GWP_Dataset_Builder.do) to produce tables and figures reported in the paper.  

-	EB_Dataset_Builder.do: This Stata do file takes the raw Eurobarometer data (please see note on access), cleans the relevant variables and merges in macroeconomic data such that it is ready to be analysed. 

-	EB_Analysis.do: This file uses the Stata dataset eb_restat.dta (created by EB_Dataset_Builder.do) to produce tables and figures reported in the paper.  

-	EB_Graphs.do: This file produces figure A.1.  The graphs use quarterly GDP data drawn from the OECD [since this is not available from the World Bank, as in the main analysis], which is uploaded here in excel format - it is merged into the data within this do file.

-	BRFSS_Analysis.do: This file uses the Stata dataset brfss_restat.dta to produce tables and figures reported in the paper.  

-	restat_unemployment_inflation.dta: This Stata data file contains cross-national data on unemployment and inflation rates, drawn from the World Bank (see paper for more details).  It is merged in the above do files with the Eurobarometer and Gallup data. 

-	restat_gdp.dta: This Stata data file contains cross-national data on GDP per capita and economic growth rates, drawn from the World Bank (see paper for more details).    It is merged in the above do files with the Eurobarometer and Gallup data. 

-	brfss_restat.dta:  This is the final BRFSS Stata dataset, ready to be analysed using BRFSS_Analysis.do

- 	GWPtables, EBtables, BRFSStables: These three files contain the Stata log files (smcl format) of the analyses reported in the tables and figures of the paper. 


Access to data:

-	The paper uses three main datasets: the Gallup World Poll, Eurobarometer, and BRFSS. One is freely available, one is easily available, one is proprietary… 
 
-	BRFSS: data is freely downloadable from https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/, and our final cleaned version is uploaded here, ready for replication. 

-	Eurobarometer: data cannot be uploaded here, but is downloadable from http://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer-data-service/search-data-access/data-access.  The data is free to download, but users must register and sign in.  We provide in this replication packet the program code required in order to clean the raw data such that it is ready to be analysed to produce the tables and figures reported in the paper. 

-	Gallup World Poll: data is proprietary and thus cannot be made publicly available. We provide in this replication packet the programme code in order to get from the raw data to our tables and figures in the paper. The Gallup Organization grants access to the Gallup World Poll to researchers under certain conditions.  For inquiries, please see http://www.gallup.com/services/170945/world-poll.aspx.

